From Studio Ghibli to a local paper-cutout production, a recent foreign award-winner to underground indie works, and of course along with several audience favorites, we’re celebrating spring with another Animation April series!
There’s never enough time to screen all the animated films we’d like to, but we hope you’ll enjoy this year’s selection of titles that span fifty years of creations from around the world. Many of these will certainly sell out, so don’t want to get your tickets. Thanks to Em Gray for the poster!
Animation April Screenings
Pom Poko
In this brilliant and often overlooked Studio Ghibli masterpiece from Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Isao Takahata, the forests are filled with groups of magical tanuki, mischievous raccoon-like animals from Japanese folklore that are capable of shape-shifting from their standard raccoon form to practically any object.
Robot Dreams
Based on the 2007 comic of the same name by Sara Varon, this dialogue-less film follows an unusual friendship between a dog and a robot in New York City in 1984.
Robin Hood (1973)
The story of the legendary British outlaw portrayed with the characters as anthropomorphic animals. Disney's firs completely "post-Walt" animated feature and the first with an entirely non-human cast.
Fantastic Mr. Fox
An urbane fox cannot resist returning to his farm raiding ways and then must help his community survive the farmers' retaliation. Directed by Wes Anderson, in his animation debut.
The Last Unicorn
In this animated musical, the villainous King Haggard (Christopher Lee) plots to destroy all the world's unicorns. When a young unicorn (Mia Farrow) learns that she's in danger and that she may soon be the last of her kind, she leaves the safety of her protected forest and enlists the help of Schmendrick (Alan Arkin), a gentle, albeit clumsy, sorcerer.